As much as any nerd and music critic, I’m aware of and generally enjoy Anthony Fantano’s music review videos. I haven’t seen ’em all, and I don’t always agree with him or feel a need to obsess about the music he obsesses about, but that’s to be expected–he’s got hundreds if not bajillions of videos. […]
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Father Damocles was shut in for days with a sore throat. He liked the Lilliputian lilt it gave to his voice, after one too many Throat Coats. This is the result.
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Clearly Judas Priest’s release of “Rocka Rolla” back in 1974 is going to have one hand tied behind its back: Judas Priest was still trying to stoke the flames of metal brutality that Iron Maiden’s “Running Free” was able to warm its way into so easily six years later. But then again, this means Iron Maiden’s metal maniac Rob Halford will get to compete not against the operatically inclined Bruce Dickinson but against Maiden’s original singer, Paul Di’Anno, who to put it charitably “has some really great moments.”
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A year or two ago, I wrote this awesome article about bizarre anti-Christmas songs for Eventbrite. And then I kind of ghosted on writing more articles for them because I was trying to keep my day job (which BTW totally failed). Anyway, I tried again recently to write more for Eventbrite, and they were like […]
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